Sarrasín

surname · Latin script

Sarrasín is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 434K
  • ESSpain1 in 877K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (measured from records)

433 people, 2024

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sarrasin in CH Switzerland, AR Argentina, US United States and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

Plante vulgairement appelée blé noir ou blé rouge. Sans doute originaire de Perse, on la cultive soit pour engraisser le bétail soit pour confectionner un pain noir, assez lourd. Elle doit son nom aux Sarrasins, mot qui désignait, au Moyen Âge, tous les musulmans, aussi bien les Arabes que les Turcs qui passaient tous pour avoir la peau noire.

Sources 1

  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sarrasín counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sarrasín is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland4331 in 19K433Sarrasin6
US United States1381 in 2.4M138Sarrasin13
ES Spain571 in 877K57Sarrasin14
BE Belgium271 in 434K27—1
AR Argentina121 in 3.8M12Sarrasin17

433 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sarrasín is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sarrasin

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sarrasin

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sarrasín under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Sarrasín have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 433 people named Sarrasín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarrasin.
Where is Sarrasín most common?
Sarrasín is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sarrasín?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 433 people named Sarrasín in 2024, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sarrasín”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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